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The Optimal – September 2026
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The Optimal – September 2026

In the September 2026 edition: why Europe’s shift to distributed cloud hides an efficiency bill, how to produce the world’s…

  • The Optimal – August 2026
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    The Optimal – August 2026

    In the August 2026 edition: pushing Qwen 3.5 to over a million tokens per second and the tuning lessons behind…

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  • The Optimal – July 2026
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    The Optimal – July 2026

    In the July 2026 edition: how vLLM keeps production quality at a two-week release cadence, the hidden startup cost when…

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  • The Optimal – June 2026
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    The Optimal – June 2026

    In the June 2026 edition: why Netflix says CPU utilization alone tells you nothing, the two misconfigurations behind Spark OOM…

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  • Your GPUs Are 95% Idle, and Buying More Won’t Fix It
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    Your GPUs Are 95% Idle, and Buying More Won’t Fix It

    AI is reshaping every industry, and agents are at the center of that shift. Many companies are racing to put…

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  • The Optimal – May 2026
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    The Optimal – May 2026

    In the May 2026 edition: hunting CPU zombies in Kubernetes, when observability becomes the outage, and how JDK 27’s compact…

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  • The Optimal – April 2026
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    The Optimal – April 2026

    In the April 2026 edition: engineering cost-efficient microservices with backend FinOps, why Java pods keep hitting Kubernetes OOMKills, and the…

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  • The Michelin Star Dilemma and the Secret to a Perfect Service
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    The Michelin Star Dilemma and the Secret to a Perfect Service

    In the world of fine dining, the tension in the kitchen is palpable long before the first guest arrives. Imagine…

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  • The State of Cloud Native Optimization 2026
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    The State of Cloud Native Optimization 2026

    A critical realization has emerged within the platform engineering community. We have excelled at creating golden paths that streamline the…

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  • Kubernetes Performance Tuning, Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Introducing Tuning Profiles
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    Kubernetes Performance Tuning, Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Introducing Tuning Profiles

    Modern Kubernetes clusters are not monolithic; they host many applications with very different operational needs. Treating a whole cluster as…

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  • The Optimal – March 2026
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    The Optimal – March 2026

    In the March 2026 edition: why cloud cost is really a distributed systems bug, the performance debt left behind by…

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